three. three. three. three. three. three. four year media project free media party dot com. it was saying r t live from moscow headquarters protesters have flooded the streets of at least six cities in our land with tens of thousands of people demonstrating against austerity measures across the country the public face a years all of us are via cuts to the state's banking system was crippled by the financial crisis monaco pitcher polly f. financial adviser says that despite all the government effort island is still on the road to ruin i think you're going to get people to be on the. ground where

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and you're in the army now male foreigners in russia will now have juju military service if they receive us citizenship even if they've already served in another country's forces. the syrian capital damascus this week saw some of the heaviest fighting in months as rebels advance on government strongholds the latest battles were over control of a key highway leading cut off by the opposition forces earlier they were also seized several checkpoints moving within a mile of the heart of the capital the rebels say they're preparing for a decisive assault on damascus but a satisfactory result is unlikely even if this push succeeds in toppling the president says dr mohammad from the syrian tribunals website it's just i mean it's just like the rules of. life threatening to some will be nicer ones different than it is now and that's not really you know if he can actually control victims and

they try to even when the you has listed. that's it on its black moves with another of defending it because they know they cannot control it so nobody because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the groups not to talk leave the vision the. most important part is these are the princes and the other will be defeated people they are not politicians they are not fighters for freedom they are just work princes and the coalition will only be able to do the work of its founder and main financing. and ask them to do it and if they don't do that they will lose this financing and they would lose the support so they have to do this and simply have they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same if you will so it's a big mess and the west would like to see this big mess feeling that country. here's health care abuse scandal has erupted in the u.k.

this week that's why the british prime minister's office will apology the issue is only looking like it's going to grow a public inquiry has found hundreds of patients suffered at the hands of health workers supposedly looking after them arches poorly boyko reports from staff at hospital. my wife started hospital in september two thousand and eight it was just a disaster to have total chaos when you walk through the door of the world you can smell it people crying no staff and very little to find and. those who was left to reach. on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. the. line in a row for you see. medication wasn't given to. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term marriage from the now notorious staff at hospital

relatives say it was a lack of compassion on behalf of the staff that stripped many sick people of their dignity so much before that sandy would have been described to be next to no more songs. in the most horrible sense seems. to. be she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and yet the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals it's emerged that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital's significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand. people never got to see them discharged from this hospital patients

died needlessly after suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to have hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages britain's health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions is soul destroying. this a bit of stuff and everybody that we've got to make say you know it's got to be made so tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer but even with the glare of a public inquiry and the media spotlight it hasn't stopped last month it emerged that a former fold baby being treated for breathing problems was found with a dummy taped to his mouth to keep him quiet the nurse being investigated for the

incident is the third member of staff at star to be disciplined in the last six months the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost polly boyko r t stafford. to some other world headlines in brief now a massive explosion has ripped through the roof of a gas plant in texas one person died while another was hospitalized with burns to over seventy five percent of his body a spokesman for the plant's operator says the cause of the blast is unknown but an investigation is under way. israel said no hazardous substances were released into

the air and is no threat to the general public. a packed bars of traveling in a mountainous area five hundred kilometers south of the chilean capital san diego has plummeted down revan killing sixteen people most of the victims were teenagers with one baby among the dead state media says the bus had no seat belts and was only meant for use in cities not for long trips. you know financial state sex life and personal relationships apparently all that information is relevant g. was national security according to the cia thousands of people in america have to answer very intimate questions while taking obligates re polygraph tests every year arches marina but mary looked into the story. for more than three decades john sullivan worked as a polygraph examiner for america's central intelligence agency today the retired

cia employee is offering some strong opinions about the nation's lie detector policy too many honest people are too many people who should be passing their tests aren't and there's no there's no accountability for that. last year more than seventy three thousand americans were reportedly required to undergo polygraph tests in order to get or keep jobs with the federal government according to an investigation by mcclatchy newspapers a growing number of u.s. agencies are asking employees and applicants intimate questions that extend way beyond the realm of national security probing matters such as sexual conduct financial matters and past personal relationships a woman was pressured to talk about her experience being molested as a child and when the polar bear for said that he refused to go on with the interrogation he alleges that he was pressured to go back and continue

interrogating or a decade ago the national academies an organization advising washington on scientific matters urged the feds to stop using polygraphs as a screening technique scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think it's important to understand that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an interrogation tool lisa ribicoff is an independent polygraph examiner and investigator who uses the polygraph program designed by homeland security she contends that it's ninety eight percent accurate i do think that there are some questions pertaining to some emotional aspects and personal situations should not be included. but i do understand why they're included on the basis of that the government needs to see how exactly what their breaking point is what are they willing to discuss what are they not willing to discuss however applicants who are

denied a coveted position after failing a polygraph are prohibited from accessing the records of their interrogation and are often barred from contesting the results were filing complaints in federal court in two thousand and four the cia veteran who conducted lie detector interrogations for thirty one years failed his own screening there was absolutely no question in my mind that the test was wrong it's this was a terrible test sullivan lost his security clearance and was denied a job with a federal contracting agency he claims his examiner falsified the results possible retribution for sullivan book detailing america's polygraph system subs a come in for a polygraph test now are guilty until proven innocent and i think that's a. corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or

ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or not our team new york. the cia veteran who revealed america's top program gets thirty months in jail but has spoken to r.t. about what led him to blow the whistle and why the government was so eager to get him behind bars the full interview next.

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was able to build the most sophisticated. tim's mission to teach me the creation of. this is why you should. only. john kiriakou will with me today a former cia official who blew the whistle on the agency's torture practices after nine eleven john kiriakou served as the chief of counterterrorist operations in pakistan mystically are always were totally praised at the agency for his role in the capture of abu zubaydah who back in two thousand and two was thought to be third in command and now years later john kerry is heading to prison he was just

sentenced to. two and a half years in jail mr getting out with thank you so much for coming thanks for having me i really appreciate it i know that time is of much value to you and your family now before you. find yourself behind bars. you were convicted of revealing the identity of an agent or freelance reporter who by the way never even published it you said you were greenwich sharing the name of the agent of the officer and your policy used for it but you also said it was not why the government went after you why do you think the government went after you i have i have never believed that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture when i went on a.b.c. news in december two thousand and seven and i said that not only was the cia torturing prisoners but that the torture policy was an official u.s.

government policy that was approved at the very top by the president of the united states himself the cia filed what's called a crimes report against me the next day with the justice department the justice department never stopped investigating me from december of two thousand and seven until i was finally arrested in january of two thousand and twelve so to say that this the disk. case is a result of a name that was found in a in an attorney's brief at guantanamo is just simply not true they were looking for something because they were going for something to pin on me what i find most gracious about your case is ahead you've been actually accused of torture of human rights violations you wouldn't have gone to jail know. they they would dismiss any accusation because the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices but yet you

go to prison because he talked about it why do you think this administration president obama who signed an executive order to stop torture at the very beginning of his first term why do you think he's protecting folks from the previous administration most people don't realize this but president obama has surrounded himself with the same intelligence advisors who advised president bush through most of the first term the cia had the same deputy director that bush had the same director of operations that bush had john brennan who is president obama's new designee to be the cia director and until what a week ago or so was the deputy national security adviser was under president bush the director of the national counterterrorism center and up to his eyeballs in torture policy so even though we changed presidents there was really no change of intelligence advisors at least not on counterterrorism john brennan you mentioned

john brennan and i want to ask you about him the future head of the cia what kind of a cia chief is he going to be in your opinion i think he's going to be somebody who will be extremely aggressive. and who will probably be comfortable. walking on the edge of the law you worked with him i did i worked with john brennan for many years and i know him pretty well mr kaplan you yourself supported torture before you were against it what happened what changed your position well let me correct you on that and this is something that that i think most americans missed in my original n.b.c. interview i was trying to draw a distinction between whether torture was right and wrong or whether it worked i believed it was wrong and i called it torture and i said that torture was official policy that's on the one side on the other side the cia had told us internally at the time that it was working what year was that that was in two thousand to two

thousand and three they were telling us that it was working we now know from the inspector general's report that was released in the spring of two thousand and nine that that was a lie that the cia was lying even to those of us inside the cia and i think it was just to protect themselves and to protect the policy but it never worked did you have a personal experience related to torture where you personally involved in torture no thank god i was never a person involved in torture when i returned from pakistan in the early summer of two thousand and two where i had been chief of counterterrorism operations i was asked by a senior officer in the cia's counterterrorist center if i wanted to be trained in in the use of these torture techniques and i said no i had a moral problem with it and i didn't want to be associated with it there were fourteen of us at the time who were. made the offer. two of us said no

and then one of us not me the other guy changed his mind so i was the only one who was made the offer who declined. because at that time you already believe that it wouldn't work i just thought i didn't know if it would work i mean they were telling us it would but i just believed it was wrong you know it at the cia part of the cia's culture is to couch all issues in shades of grey you have to be very comfortable working in morally nebulous situations or legally nebulous situations but there are some things that really are black and white and i believe that that was a black and white issue there's something that i think you will find interesting and something that i'd like you to comment on polls by the american red cross show that the majority of americans find torture acceptable sixty percent of young people agree whereas four years ago torture was largely condemned in the u.s.

. how did this become the new normal what happened in those four years i think that many people who told pollsters in the early or middle part of the last decade were reacting to president bush little by little president obama adopted most of president bush's counterterrorism policies and just because he happens to be a nobel peace prize winner barack obama you know after most americans i brought haven't paid much attention strive just bought iraq hussein obama does i think it's a question of education or domestic execute people need to be informed that hollywood have a role to play i think hollywood had a role to play i think that zero dark thirty for example did a grave disservice to counterterrorism zero dark thirty perpetuates this grand lie that torture led to the the. the killing of osama bin laden it's just

simply not true myths often become history one comedian here said movies it was about zero dark thirty by the way it's serious movies as well. americans learned their history it's true what myths what other myths do you see being perpetuated now related to the war on terror i think one of the great myths and i chuckle to myself because it always seemed so ridiculous to me was president bush's statement that they hate us because we love freedom. i know al-qaeda i've captured al qaeda fighters i've had conversations sitting across a table like i am with you without a leaders and i can tell you from firsthand personal experience that the reason people take up arms against us is because of a lack of education yet that i understand that the united states can't educate the whole wall no we can't but we can we can help other countries develop an

infrastructure so that they can educate themselves becoming more and more about your encounters with those what are their impressions that you have for the first fighter i ever caught was in one thousand year old boy from tunisia and the only reason he went to afghanistan was because he had nothing else to do he had no skills and no way of making a living and he wanted to get married so the local in mom said if you want to make some money you know what you should do you should go to afghanistan and make jihad against the americans if you do that i know somebody who will pay your family five hundred dollars and you can use that for a dowry and you can you can get a wife. so this kid had nothing against the united states he had never even really thought about the united states so from your experience you saw no ideology i saw very little you see ideology and some of the older fighters some of the leaders the camp commanders for example sure there's ideology there but in my short time in pakistan i captured fifty two al-qaeda fighters i can count on one hand the number

of people who were real ideologues who really were there for jihad who were really there to kill americans three out of fifty two the perception of one condiment two has gone a long way since two thousand and eight when he was a burning and of a highly controversial issue most recently you know the state department has shut down the office that was working to shut down the guantanamo prison is that this administration's way of saying. forget about guantanamo let's move on i think it is i think it is again where's the outrage the american people really don't care if kuantan the most open or closed this administration it appears decided not to bother about interrogations kuantan prisoners and all that and just to bomb whoever seems suspicious withdrawals what do you think about this administration's no prisoners policy we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children

with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity and what this does is it encourages other people to take up arms against us john brennan the architect of the drone program basically and it was last year i think when he claimed that u.s. drone strikes caused no civilian deaths in pakistan over the prior year which was an outright lie by so many accounts do you think we're going to see more transparency with regards to drones with john brennan at the helm of the cia no. no i don't with john brennan. secrecy is the key word. unless of course you know if he chooses to leak for the benefit of the administration what did you expect when you decided to go public to come clean on on on torture at the cia i mean your wife worked at the cia and she was fired because of him and your

father five and you're going to present what future did you envision for yourself five years ago. i didn't envision prison in my future five years ago i expected there to be a national debate on whether or not we wanted to use torture as an official u.s. policy now i'm very happy proud actually that i played a role in that debate and now the limbo law of the land is that torture is illegal i'm very proud of that i frankly didn't expect that the government would would go after me so relentlessly i stood in the snow for two hours to vote for president obama i really believed that this was a positive change i believed that he deserved that nobel peace prize or only because i expected things to change so dramatically at the beginning of his first

term so no i never believed i would be going to prison under a president obama never. that's been i think my biggest disappointment but you haven't seen a dramatic change i haven't seen any change no torture he stopped torture sure but in terms of counterterrorism policy i think the obama administration is largely an extension of the bush administration. and stick it out with thank you for the interview i wish all the best thanks very much for having me.

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